Ratatouille is one of those things that can be really good or really bland, I find. I got it right this time, so I’m writing down what I did before I forget. Also, I have to mention just in passing…
Category: everyday cooking
Recipe: Vanilla Poached Stone-Fruit
The lights are going out all over the internet, and this blog will be down for twelve hours from midnight local time in support of the SOPA blackout. But before we all resign ourselves to an internet-free world (and how…
Recipe: Lemon Drink for a hot day
This post was going to be called Lemon Drink for Shakira, only then it turned out I had lost my copy of the recipe, but on the bright side, I actually had given it to Shakira already, and she still…
Menu notes for the next few days
Probably only of interest to me.
Recipe: Old English Matrimonials for Melissa
I have a terrible, terrible habit as a cook. Actually, I have many terrible habits as a cook, as I’m sure you all know by now, not least of which is my complete inability to follow a recipe even when…
Recipe: Easy Pasta Dinner
For some strange reason, nobody ever gives me hampers. Possibly, they have some idea that my house is full of food already and a hamper is the last thing I need. I can’t imagine where they would get such a…
Recipe: Spicy Chocolate and Zucchini Cake
I can see you all looking at me rather oddly at this point, but zucchini cake is actually surprisingly good. My Oma used to make one with nuts in it, which in fact I didn’t like, but that wasn’t the…
Recipe: Easiest Apricot Dessert Ever
Well, second easiest. The easiest is just eating the apricots. This recipe is so easy it doesn’t even need quantities. What you do is you get a lovely fresh apricot, and slit it open just enough to get the stone…
Recipe: Summer Apricot and Lavender Crumble (gluten-free!)
I am such a lunatic right now. I’m bouncing off the walls and giggling madly at the completely insane set of tasks ahead of me this month. And then someone sends me an email mentioning shiny metallic food paint and…
Respect the chicken!
(This is another one of those ‘I’m really not vegetarian’ posts.) I talk a fair bit here about respecting the chicken (or the lamb, or the beef, as the case may be), and being mindful of where meat comes from,…